Rob, Thanks, that is solid advice. We'll look into making those kinds of changes. When this feature was initially created, it did not anticipate this many emails going out so I think it's a case of an unexpected load.
Also, if anyone else has insight into the meaning of the EOF error in the mail.log, I'd still be interested. Thanks! Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:30 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log > > Nick, > > I usually just loop over the single e-mail address, and do > not send a single e-mail to like 200 recipients at one time. > I usually will customize the e-mail body, rather than using a > BCC. Taking this approach would probably save you on both > accounts of a possible time out, and any bad e-mails, as they > would be identified. The load on the mail server would > increase, but I think the results would be easier to manage. > Of course that is just my 2 cents. > > Is there anyway that you could check the e-mails to see that > they are all properly formed? Or perhaps there is an unusual > character in one of them? > > Or you could set a limit of lets say 100 emails in the bcc > and just divide the list up and try sending it that way? I > think that limiting the # of e-mail addresses will help with > any potential time-out issues. > > Rob > > On 11/5/08, Nick Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob, > > > > Thanks for your response. To answer your question, this is > part of a > > "member search" feature on a web site where you can search > a directory > > for a list of contacts with a certain criteria (e.g. members in > > chicago). Then, you can email a message to the list. It's an old > > feature and was created by adding the full list of emails > into the bcc > > line. It could add them into the "to" line I suppose, but > I imagine > > that would still have the same problem. > > > > So, are you saying that a single (or multiple) bad email > addresses in > > a list on the bcc (or to) line of the email could lead to it being > > rejected by the mail server? > > > > We can go into the undelivr folder and manualy drag it back > into the > > spool folder. After trying this several times, the email finally > > sends? Does that suggest that it might be more of a timeout issue? > > > > N > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:29 PM > >> To: cf-talk > >> Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log > >> > >> I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. > >> Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send > direct? > >> Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the > problem, or see > >> what is in the undeliverable folder. > >> Rob > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having > >> > problems sending out an email through our application using > >> cfmail. > >> > We are seeing the following record in mail.log: > >> > "Error","scheduler-8","11/04/08","15:10:23",,"[EOF]" > >> > > >> > I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure > >> what that > >> > really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? > >> > > >> > In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc > >> field, so > >> > that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure > if there are > >> > bad email addresses in the list that are causing the > >> problem or just > >> > too many to process before a timeout, or something else. > >> > > >> > Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? > >> > > >> > Thanks again in advance! > >> > > >> > Nick > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
